The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Translations from French Journals, and Selections from the Most Esteemed British ReviewsM. Thomas, 1813 |
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... ancient kings of Leinster and Ulster . It is now very much reduced , and exhibits little else than the ruins of its former gran- deur . The remainder of our ride to Dublin , distant eight miles , was through a pleasing and picturesque ...
... ancient kings of Leinster and Ulster . It is now very much reduced , and exhibits little else than the ruins of its former gran- deur . The remainder of our ride to Dublin , distant eight miles , was through a pleasing and picturesque ...
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... ( ancient part . ) TASTES and customs have undergone a material alteration , since Labruyere ridiculed the fanaticism of learning in the person of that Hermagoras , who had never seen Versailles , yet could tell the number of steps in the ...
... ( ancient part . ) TASTES and customs have undergone a material alteration , since Labruyere ridiculed the fanaticism of learning in the person of that Hermagoras , who had never seen Versailles , yet could tell the number of steps in the ...
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... ancient and modern , merits in the first place our attention ; to present those who have not applied to the difficult science of legislation , the result of our experience , we will commence with the country which offers the greatest ...
... ancient and modern , merits in the first place our attention ; to present those who have not applied to the difficult science of legislation , the result of our experience , we will commence with the country which offers the greatest ...
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... ancient inhabitants of the country , it is in the ancient usages of the Germans that the first basis of the existing institu- tions of Europe ought to be found . ' The first part of our work shall therefore have for its subject the ...
... ancient inhabitants of the country , it is in the ancient usages of the Germans that the first basis of the existing institu- tions of Europe ought to be found . ' The first part of our work shall therefore have for its subject the ...
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... ancient Germans were acquainted with an hereditary no bility ; so Tacitus has formally declared : insignis nobilitas aut mag- na patrum merita , principis dignationem etiam adolescentulis assig- nat . But we are ignorant how they ...
... ancient Germans were acquainted with an hereditary no bility ; so Tacitus has formally declared : insignis nobilitas aut mag- na patrum merita , principis dignationem etiam adolescentulis assig- nat . But we are ignorant how they ...
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Page 274 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 80 - Clouds slumbering at his feet, and the clear blue Of Summer's sky, in beauty bending o'er him, — The city bright below; and far away, Sparkling in golden light, his own romantic bay. Tall spire, and glittering roof, and battlement, And banners floating in the sunny air ; And white sails o'er the calm blue waters bent, Green isle and circling shore, are blended there, In wild reality. When life is old, And many a scene forgot, the heart will hold Its memory of this...
Page 41 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 79 - WEEHAWKEN ! in thy mountain scenery yet, All we adore of Nature, in her wild And frolic hour of infancy, is met ; And never has a summer's morning smiled Upon a lovelier scene, than the full eye Of the enthusiast revels on — when high, Amid thy forest solitudes, he climbs O'er crags that proudly tower above the deep, And knows that sense of danger, which sublimes The breathless moment — when his daring step Is on the verge of the cliff, and...
Page 253 - ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ; In which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of Young Persons.
Page 133 - The present is an endeavour to render an abridgment of the same into English, by which I expect to prove to my European friends, that the superstitious practices which deform the Hindu religion have nothing to do with the pure spirit of its dictates!
Page 486 - ... incite or stir up the people to hatred or contempt of the person of his majesty, his heirs or successors, or of the government and constitution of this realm, as by law established ; every such meeting shall be deemed and taken to be an unlawful assembly.
Page 486 - all Pamphlets and Papers ' containing any Public News, Intelligence or Occurrences, or any ' Remarks or Observations thereon, or upon any Matter in Church ' or State, printed in any part of the United Kingdom for Sale, ' and published periodically, or in Parts or Numbers, at Intervals ' not exceeding Twenty-six Days between the Publication of any ' Two such Pamphlets or Papers, Parts or Numbers...
Page 488 - it was not ; it was born three and twenty years and some months after me ; and, if you are satisfied to listen to a dull historian, you shall have the history of its nativity. " When I was at the Temple, a few of us formed a little debating club — poor Apjohn, and Duhigg,* and the rest of them! they have...
Page 133 - In order, therefore, to vindicate my own faith and that of our early forefathers,' I have been endeavouring, for some time past, to convince my countrymen of the true meaning of our sacred books; and to prove, that my aberration deserves not the opprobrium which some unreflecting persons have been so ready to throw upon me.